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Editorial: Farm injuries show it's time for rethink
Worksafe will need to show its approach to farm safety is reducing workplace casualties or farmers could find themselves being held to account in the courts.
Worksafe will need to show its approach to farm safety is reducing workplace casualties or farmers could find themselves being held to account in the courts.
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For Garry Reymer, who farms near Cambridge, ongoing low dairy prices will mean more cost control, but he stops short of saying the situation is desperate.
Dairy farmers are bracing themselves for still more falls in product prices at tomorrow's Global Dairy Trade auction.
Asia's biggest economy looks to limit manufacturers to three labels and impose stricter safety procedures.
Synlait Milk has revised its forecast milk price for the 2015 / 2016 season from $5.00 per kilogram to $4.20.
Banks say more heavily indebted New Zealand dairy farmers will be asked to sell up as non-performing loans increase.
Dairy Farms NZ - likely to list on the NZ stock exchange, has been given permission to buy up South Island farms.
Rain since the New Year has reduced the drought risk associated with the current El Nino weather pattern, ANZ Bank said.
The region's current drought began on February 12 last year, and it has now been extended three times.
It has caused havoc everywhere else but Kiwi farmers may get a lucky break.
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Wool prices rose at the first auction following the Christmas and New Year holiday period, helped by the lower New Zealand dollar.
Ranchers and dairy farmers in the US have gone online in their search for thousands of missing cattle after a two-day blizzard buried herds.
El Nino is technically past its peak, but the true impact of the weather pattern looks likely to play out over the next few months.
As cranberry season reaches its zenith over the Christmas holiday, farmers are increasingly selling family-owned cranberry bogs to larger operators.
Z Energy says committing to using biofuel is one way people can contribute to the global effort to reduce climate change outlined in the Paris Agreement.
Grabbing a bottle of milk from the supermarket was once a simple task.
Zespri's forecast per tray returns to growers have moderated after a strong 2014/15 season, but stayed steady on a per hectare basis.
Fonterra has maintained milk price at $4.60 per kilo, but scrapped a farmer support scheme.
Pressure is mounting on Fonterra to cut its farmgate milk price forecast at this week's board meeting, but it's looking like a close call.
Animal welfare group SAFE placed a graphic advertisement to shame NZ's dairy industry in the Guardian newspaper.
China is taking steps to genetically engineer its own food supply rather than growing it the boring old traditional way.
WATCH: Waikato farmer's impassioned defence of his fellow farmers following an expose on the "dark side of the farming industry".
Mr Robertson admitted farmers did take calves off their mothers, but said this was done in a humane way at an appropriate time.
MPI says an investigation into the alleged mistreatment of bobby calves had begun before news broke.
The origin of some of our most nutritious food does not bear thinking about. Milk, eggs, even some fruit, are nutrients intended for the young of other species.